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Karl Kraus
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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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More quotes by Karl Kraus
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
Karl Kraus
The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
Karl Kraus
Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.
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The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
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You don't even live once.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus
A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.
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I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
Karl Kraus
The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.
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Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
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Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
Karl Kraus
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.
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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
Karl Kraus
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
Karl Kraus
On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
Karl Kraus
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
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My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
Karl Kraus
The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
Karl Kraus
Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
Karl Kraus